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No. 2

2023 April/June

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Between Two Special Operations

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-5-10

Looking Ahead

“Will There Be a Role for Us Ordinary People to Play in the New World?’’

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-12-36

Sources of Behavior

Values and Mobilization: Towards the Dynamics of “Sterile Excitement”

Alexander F. Filippov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-38-57

Talking Politics: Vladimir Putin’s Narrative on Contemporary History (2019-2022)

Alexei I. Miller

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-58-75

Russian Foreign-Policy Culture and the Horde: A Hypothesis

Timofei V. Bordachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-76-104

Indispensable Neighborhood

Disparate Influences of the Provincial Sino-Russian Political Border on Sociocultural and Economic Borders

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-106-130

Central Asia and the Struggle for Soviet Legacy

Alexey V. Mikhalev, Kubatbek K. Rakhimov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-131-140

Kazakhstan’s Multi-Vector Foreign Policy

Roman A. Yuneman

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-141-162

Focus on Asia

“To Foresee Black Swans, to Watch Out for Gray Rhinos”

Alexander V. Lomanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-164-179

Conflicts in East Asia: How Are They Different from Europe’s?

Dmitry V. Streltsov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-180-191

Arabs and the Silent Support for Russia

Nourhan El-Sheikh

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-192-196

Review

Russia-South Korea Relations: On Bumpy Parallel Roads

Alexander Z. Zhebin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-2-198-204

Articles

Between Two Special Operations

There are two opposing “antiworlds” locked in a fight for a new world hierarchy, with two special operations at its heart: Russia against Ukraine and the West against Russia. China’s engagement adds scale to this fight.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

“Will There Be a Role for Us Ordinary People to Play in the New World?’’

Since we are optimistic that the journal will keep coming out for the next twenty years, we have decided to ask our colleagues, authors and friends around the world what will be relevant for the first issue of our journal in 2043, and what will be the main challenge to humanity just in order to have enough time to order materials. Here is the result.

Values and Mobilization: Towards the Dynamics of “Sterile Excitement”

Law does not require the impossible from a person, and a person does not expect tricks from the legal system. Values have their own logic, which is not always clear to a person who has decided to speak out for all the good and against all the bad. Both law and values mobilize a person, but they do it differently.

Alexander F. Filippov

Talking Politics: Vladimir Putin’s Narrative on Contemporary History (2019-2022)

The events of 2022 drew a line under Vladimir Putin’s attempts to preserve or assert by means of political and historical polemics a narrative about the European past that would suit Russia. Putin’s extensive speech made on February 21, 2022, which became a foreword to the special military operation in Ukraine, heralded a transition from disputes about history to practical action to change its course.

Alexei I. Miller

Russian Foreign-Policy Culture and the Horde: A Hypothesis

Russia’s relations with the Horde can be recognized as the most significant foreign policy interactions during the first 200 years of the existence of the state as we continue to enjoy its continuous sovereignty.

Timofei V. Bordachev

Disparate Influences of the Provincial Sino-Russian Political Border on Sociocultural and Economic Borders

The HLJ-RFE border demonstrates how the state, as a “power container” can leak its wealth, culture, and society along the borderland. Furthermore, theoretically, this bottom-up, provincial case counters the concept of “methodological nationalism” that presumes the equivalence of three borders.

Central Asia and the Struggle for Soviet Legacy

The struggle for Soviet legacy goes on because the industrial base and infrastructure created by Soviet civilization will be of interest to world powers and transnational corporations for many years ahead. This is why references are made to both the common past and the key point of no return—the collapse of the USSR.

Alexey V. Mikhalev, Kubatbek K. Rakhimov

Kazakhstan’s Multi-Vector Foreign Policy

With ongoing political changes in Central Asia, China’s growing influence, and a declining U.S. presence, Kazakhstan’s multi-vector policy may undergo significant changes. It may eventually alter, bringing the country closer to one of the centers of power, or, on the contrary, it may provoke a conflict between two or more actors in the region.

Roman A. Yuneman

“To Foresee Black Swans, to Watch Out for Gray Rhinos”

China will have to complete modernization in the face of growing confrontation with the West. If the CPC succeeds in addressing this challenge while maintaining acceptable growth rates and social stability over the next two decades, China will be able to change not only itself, but the entire world order we are accustomed to.

Alexander V. Lomanov

Conflicts in East Asia: How Are They Different from Europe’s?

Both in Europe and in East Asia, international crises flare up periodically, fraught with the threat of growing from the regional to the global level. Conflicts in international relations in East Asia manifest themselves no less, if not more, than in Europe. However, they are based on slightly different reasons than in the Occidental world.

Dmitry V. Streltsov

Arabs and the Silent Support for Russia

Despite Washington’s plans, the Ukraine crisis has led to the deepening of cooperation between Russia and the Arab world, as the latter has chosen to further its constructive partnership with Moscow.

Nourhan El-Sheikh

Russia-South Korea Relations: On Bumpy Parallel Roads

The monograph by Anatoly Torkunov and Kim Hak-chun is undoubtedly unique; its release has become not only an outstanding event in the history of Korean studies in Russia and Russian studies in Korea, but also a milestone in the history of scientific and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Alexander Z. Zhebin